2024-25 Seed Grant Awards

Rainbow Elementary School (Madison County, Alabama)
Mrs. Megan Hockey
Let's Makey-Makey it Hands On
Rainbow Elementary's STEM program cultivates essential 21st-century skills and fosters a foundational understanding crucial to STEM disciplines and global citizenship. Students actively participate in inquiries employing scientific and engineering methodologies to discern global challenges and real-world problems. The use of Makey-Makeys will allow students to create interactive, experiential projects integrating coding, engineering, and science while honing collaborative problem-solving skills.

Lincoln County High School (Lincoln County, Tennessee)
Ms. Mary E LeBlanc (Marty)
Lincoln County Schools Robotics After School Program
Students need the ability to create, design, innovate, and think critically in order to solve complex challenges. Every student should possess deep knowledge and strong skills in math, science, technology, and engineering and should be excited and ready to use that knowledge in the real world. To meet this challenge, we need to provide students with new tools and techniques that enable them to learn and then practice the knowledge they have acquired. A number of robotics kit platforms are available to schools and have introduced students to math, science, and engineering at all grade levels.

Limestone County Career Technical Center (Limestone County, Alabama)
Ms. Monica Hobson
24-25 Team 34 Robotics
Team 34 participates in the FIRST FRC competition. It is a program that teaches students the principles of engineering and how to work as a team. In a short amount of time, students must work together and design and program a functioning robot to compete in that year's game. It is designed to promote interest in careers in the STEM fields. The competitions are opportunities to work with teams all over the country to achieve their goals. They will showcase and demonstrate at these competitions. This program is designed to give students real-world experience applicable to the STEM industry.

Holy Spirit Regional Catholic School (Madison County, Alabama)
Mrs. Lynn K. McQueen
Mars Terrain Simulation Rover Project
Our motto is The Power of Purposeful Pay is Addicting. Over the past school year students have been working toward building NASA LEGO Space Models. Once the kits arrived students selected their kit and began the challenge of building. As the models are completed lesson plans have been written so younger students can learn about the NASA Space Mission. To continue in the realm of Space technology this year our students would like to add an aspect to the project by adding NASA Mars Landing Site learning station in our Outdoor Classroom area. The station will replicate Mar's surface.

Madison County Virtual Academy (Madison County, Alabama)
Ms. Whitney Evans
Providing MCVA Students the Opportunity to Credential in the ALSDE STEM Cluster
This project will provide students at the Madison County Virtual Academy (MCVA) with the supplies needed to credential in the Career and Technical Education (CTE) STEM Cluster. Students pursuing this pathway will take three sequential courses that are aligned with a local, state, or national third-party credentialing agency to earn a program credential, certification, or license. The supplies purchased with this award will provide hands-on experience and skills that are essential for credentialing in the CTE STEM Cluster, while increasing interest in STEM careers.

Meridianville Middle School (Madison County, Alabama)
Mrs. Brandi Glenn
Tough as a Tardigrade!
I propose a project that will provide 7th-grade students with the opportunity to explore the fascinating world of microscopic organisms found in pond water. Students will embark on an engaging exploration of tardigrades, also known as "water bears," using high-quality microscopes. Through hands-on investigations, students will observe these resilient microorganisms' unique characteristics and capabilities. The project aims to foster students' scientific curiosity, critical thinking, and communication skills as they share their tardigrade discoveries with their peers & community

Julian Newman Elementary (Limestone County, Alabama)
Mrs. Diane Trout
Indi Speed Coding
Indi Speed Coding is designed to introduce early learners to computational thinking, STEAM, and computer science principles in a fun and exciting way by using a fun car shaped robot that will have students zooming through lessons. Integration of the Indi cars into science and math standards will solidify the foundation in computational thinking.

Hazel Green High School (Madison County, Alabama)
Mrs. Teresa Hodge
Coding custom built hardware
Our engineering and programming classes would like to invest in Sphero's little bits code kits, which utilize sensors, circuits and electronics in order to create programmable games and hands on inventions. Students would be able to experience first hand the physical result of programming hardware systems to accomplish a task. Both the engineering and programming classes would take advantage of the kits and the students would gain a better understanding of how these two disciplines are related. We are hoping to help students connect programming with real world application.

Seed Grants for Previous Years

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